For this post I decided to interview my brother Tyler and write it for him as he can’t write yet. This is the story Tyler told me.

Hi name  is Tyler and I am Jarrod’s brother. I am 5 years old and like to play the wii a lot, it is fun. My other favourite things are:

• Hot wheels
• Skylanders
• Piraites  of the Caribbean  lego
• Playing outside
• Dirt bikes

I started Prep this year and so far I think school is pretty cool. I also like these things about school:

• Snack time
• Lunch time
• Home time
• P.E
• Buddy time
• ART
• Maths
• Reading
• Indonesian
• Free time
• Show and tell

I have more but I can’t name them all. I also love spend time with Jarrod and playing different games with him.

Do you have a brother or sister?

If so what do they like?

This year I am going to be in Grade 4 and will turn 10. I am looking forward to being in Grade 4 because:

• I will be getting my very own netbook to use in class and to bring home to use as well
• doing bike ed and going on camp for the first time
• being in the same year level as Mrs Morris and Miss Jordan, even though I’m not in their class hopefully we’ll get to do some activities with them
• I might get my pen licence if I can write neat enough
• my brother Tyler starts Prep and will be at school with me

I’ve had a great summer break and have done lots of great things such as:

• had 3 different friends sleep over
• been to the movies with Nana and Tyler to see Wreck It Ralph
• got lots of great Christmas presents
• got to celebrate Australia Day with friends
• went to the Melbourne Aquarium by train
• went to the Mussel Festival
• went for a swim at Lara Pool
• spent lots of time at the beach
• competed in a Nipper Carnival
• tried to surf with my new surf board

Even though I had a great year last year with Mr Hennan and Mr Marshall I know this year is going to be just as good and I’m looking forward to learning lots of new things with Mr Lees.

What are you looking forward to about 2013?

1. In which category would you like to vote for click student blog
2. Click on Jarrod’s Awesome Blog (be careful there’s a Jaden’s Awesome Blog)
3. Then click Vote.

Thank you to whoever voted for me.

Start voting for me today, please.

 Who is your favourite nominee? 

Today it’s my brother Jarrod’s birthday. So to my best brother in the world Happy 9th Birthday Jarrod, I hope you have a great day and you share your birthday cake with me.

Love your little brother Tyler

Help me say happy birthday to Jarrod and leave him a message.

Here are my nominations for 2012 for the Edublog Awards.

New blog

3HM’s Classroom Blog

Because there is a lot of guest posts by students and great topics.

Class blog 

4KM and 4KJ

Because they do lots of great posts and reply to every comment.

Student blog

Dana

Dana has a new blog and already has a lot of great posts and widgets.

Teacher blog

Integrating Technology In The Primary Classroom – Mrs Morris

Mrs Morris writes a lot of posts to help teachers all over the world learn more about blogging.

Webtool

ClustrMaps

Because they let you get a map for free so you can see how many people visit your blog.

Mobile app

Rover

It lets you access educational websites and also lets the flash player sites work on your iPad.

Good luck to everyone who gets nominated

Who did you nominate for the Edublog Awards and why?

I like listening to music on my iPod and here is my top 5 favourite songs at the moment.

They are:

1. Gangnam Style by PSY
2. Star ships by Nicki Minaj
3. Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO
4. Whistle by Flo Rida
5. Wide Awake by Katy Perry

The lyrics for Gangnam style are

Lyrics | PSY lyrics – Gangnam Style lyrics

What are your top 5 favourite songs at the moment?

Do you like Gangnam style?

Today is Blog Action Day (BAD) which is where people all around the world blog on a particular topic on a certain day. This year the theme is The Power of We. You can check out the post I did last year for BAD by clicking here.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ 14886702@N05/1554086730

This year I’m writing about how schools can work together to improve their school and sometimes help others?

A really great school who help others is Leopold Primary School. They help our world by:

• Raising money for charities. They have casual clothes days, dress up days and even a crazy hair day where the money raised goes to a charity.
• They collect can and dry goods to send to those who can’t afford to buy food
• They also recently collected and donated dog and cat food to their local animal shelter
• They try to reduce litter by recycling, having “nude” foods and picking up any rubbish around the school
• They are always looking for ways to  to improve their school and help others where possible

Do you know a great school who helps their community?

What does your school do to help others? 

For the last two weeks I’ve been on school holidays and have done lots of great things. On the middle weekend I went to the “block”, click here to read a previous post I have written about the block. These holidays I went to the “block” with our family friends Wendy, Anthony, Emily and Cameron. Cameron who’s also in my grade this year has written a guest post about our trip.

THE BLOCK

By Cameron 

On the holidays I went to Jarrod’s Block with my family. I rode the quad bike. I went through the muddy puddles and mud went everywhere. The back of my coat was covered in mud.

Jarrod and I went yabbying.  We caught lots of big and little yabbies. Jarrod and I found some rabbit holes so we made up some homemade traps with wire and sticks.  But we did not catch any rabbits. Jarrod’s Dad got a rabbit and we used this for yabby bait.

My sister Emily rode Jarrod’s motorbike, it is a two wheeler.  Emily loved it so much she did not want to get off the motorbike and her coat was also covered in mud.

For dinner on the BBQ we had dim Sims, sausages, hamburgers and hash browns cooked by the Dads’ it was delicious. For breakfast we had bacon and eggs on the BBQ.

I slept in a room with Jarrod, Tyler and Melane in my sleeping bag.

Tyler, Jarrod, Emily and I all had a turn at Emily’s homemade rocket launcher.  It was awesome and we all got wet. The rocket went high up in the sky and my Dad held the pole.

Thanks for a great weekend Jarrod, Tyler, Melane and Cameron.

What did you do or like to do on your break?

On the 15th of September I went to watch the V8 supercars at the Sandown 500, in Melbourne. I went with my dad, brother Tyler and some of my dads friends.

The V8′s are a unique type of racing car to Australia, you can learn more about by clicking here.

We went for a walk around to look at the different cars and got lots of posters from the different teams. I also got stuck in a tree but eventually my dad came and helped me down and went rolling down a hill it was really cool.

Here is a video I made of my trip to Sandown 500

Have you been to Sandown?

Have you been to the car racing?

We got a new iPad and its great because it has a camera. It also has a really cool feature were you can talk to your iPad and it types for you. I thought I’d test it with this post and it was great and saved my fingers from all the typing.

We have put some new apps on the iPad, some of my favourites are:

• Rover because it lets you on Mathletics and other web sites that the iPad doesn’t normally work on.

• Photo Booth which came with the new iPad, it allows you to make your pictures more effective than just using a normal camera.

• Photo speak because you can take photos and make the photos move and talk.

• Toontastic because you get to make your own cartoon and get to make characters move and talk.

We still have our old iPad, the iPad 1 but I try to go on the new iPad as much as I can because it’s so much better.

Have you got an iPad 3?

What’s your favourite thing about the iPad?